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Dear Palani and Friends,

As per mail referred below, the URL for the
Statue of Garuda-Vishnu from Java is

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/4262/garuda.htm

Please pass the message onwards.
Would be thankful on your views.

Regards

Jayabarathi

> Dear Palani,
>
> Please feel free to do so. I will be beaming a very
> unique and dynamic statue of Garuda and Vishnu from the
> period of the Javanese Emperor KertaNagara.
> It will be put up in the same area as the Indonesian
> Ganesa 20000 Rupiah currency.
> Will inform as soon as it is put up.
>
> Regards
>
> Jayabarathi
>
>
>>>> Garuda is a type of white-breasted falcon. It is
>>>> of divine origin. According to Hindu Mythology, Garuda
>>>> and the snakes are off-springs of the same father but different
>>>> mothers. In his younger days, Garuda had to endure some injustice
>>>> at the hands of the mother of snakes.
>>>> The feats of Garuda are found in a small mythological
>>>> text called Garuda Purana. He ultimately becomes the vahana
>>>> of Vishnu. But he remains a sworn enemy of snakes.
>>>> Sesha is a thousand-headed serpent of unqualified
>>>> valour and strenght. He is the King of the Serpents and Lord
>>>> of the Patala Loka or the "world beneath". He possesses immense
>>>> knowledge. In fact, it was he is reputed have to have been
>>>> the Grand-guru of Adhi Shankara himself. Sesha became the
>>>> seat and the bed-stead of Vishnu. Thus Vishnu gets the name
>>>> "Ananda Sayana" or Ananda Padma-nabha".Ananda is also a
>>>> name for Sesha. One of the hills of Thirupathi, the holy pilgrimage
>>>> centre for Vishnu is known as Sesha Giri.
>>>> When Vishnu took the incarnation of Rama, Sesha
>>>> followed him as his younger brother Lakshmana. When Vishnu
>>>> was born as Krishna, Sesha became BalaRama-the elder brother
>>>> of Krishna.
>>>> Garuda is the State emblem of Indonesia and Thailand
>>
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